That magnificent designer of beautiful boats passed away on Jersey last month, aged 92. Among so many other lovely vessels, my YM 3-Tonner Sanderling was one of his great designs, winning the Yachting Monthly's annual design competition in 1948. Obituary from the Jersey Evening Post . RIP Alan, and ...

"Round the Cabin Table" is a good read. MG was particularly noted, I think, for his writings about voyages within the Thames estuary, and for those who like those particular stories I would also recommend "Shoalwater and Fairway" by H. Alker Tripp and "Swin, Swale and Swatch...

... and along the same lines, Sanderling (YM 3-Tonner) had both bilge keels and internal trimming ballast of about 1/4 ton (in the form of sash weights under the bottom-boards), and I wouldn't have done without either.

"I painted the plywood hull underneath with antifreeze(ethylene glycol) , which is like chemotherapy for rot" That sounds interesting if really true, do you have any further info on this method of treating rot please? There's plenty of information on treating wood with glycol and/or CPES ...

Exactly what John said. Sanderling's bilge keels are raked on the forward edge, primarily to avoid snagging warps -- http://www.woodenboatfittings.com.au/boats/sanderling/starboard-bilge-keel2.jpg If I were building them from scratch I'd rake both ends for that reason. Mike